organization of the defence and of the war more ardently than ever.

"Instead of the meeting of cowardly reactionists that our enemies
expect, let us form an assembly that shall be veritably national and
republican, desirous of peace, if peace can ensure the honour, the
rank, and the integrity of our country, but capable of voting for
war rather than aiding in the assassination of France.

"FRENCHMEN,

"Remember that our fathers left us France, whole and indivisible;
let us not be traitors to our history; let us not deliver up our
traditional domains into the hands of barbarians. Who then will sign
the armistice? Not you, legitimists, who fought so valiantly under
the flag of the Republic, in the defence of the ancient kingdom of
France; nor you, sons of the bourgeois of 1789, whose work was to
unite the old provinces in a pact of indissoluble union; nor you,
workmen of the towns, whose intelligence and generous patriotism
represent France in all her strength and grandeur, the leader of
modern nations; nor you, tillers of the soil, who never have spared
your blood in the defence of the Revolution, which gave you the
ownership of your land and your title of citizen.

"No! Not one Frenchman will be found to sign this infamous act; the
enemy's attempt to mutilate France will be frustrated, for, animated
with the same love of the mother country and bearing our reverses
with fortitude, we shall become strong once more and drive out the
foreign legions.

"To the attainment of this noble end, we must devote our hearts, our